“Call That Art? I Call It Bad Eyesight”: Seeing or Not Seeing in the Context of Responsive Art Practice

Abstract

In response to the idea that static representation might “capture” or “halt” the eventfulness of life, Lovejoy invites the reader to consider move-ability in the doings of images and texts. Here reductive re-presentation is refused calling on our sense-abilities to see—that is perceive things in their real contexts. A focus on context is a focus on what happens rather than on a thing that is in the world. Loitering with intent in a series of vignettes she invites you to “vade mecum … go with me” as she revisits past projects in an attempt to re-present experiential complexities of practice through narrative c/artographies.